(26 Jan 2025)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS FOOTAGE OF A DEAD CHILD++
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Jenin, West Bank – 26 January 2025
1. Various of people hugging and surrounding the body of 2-year-old Palestinian girl Laila Al-Khatib
2. People hugging
3. Woman hugging Al-Khatib’s body
4. People stroking the face of Al-Khatib
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bassam Hazzaa, grandfather of Laila Al-Khatib:
“This girl they killed was an orphan. She lost her father two years ago, and her mother takes care of her. They live in my house. The soldiers surrounded the house and opened fire on us with the intent to kill. My daughter tried to escape to the inner room but they pursued her with gunfire, because they have advanced equipment and thermal devices, as we know. So they opened fire on her with the intent to kill. Unfortunately, the little girl was hit in the head, a fatal injury, and was martyred, may God have mercy on her. Her mother and aunt were also injured.”
6. Exterior of Hazzaa’s house
7. Close of bullet marks on wall
8. Various of bullets holes in windows
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bassam Hazzaa, grandfather of Laila Al-Khatib:
“This army comes to kill us, to kill our children, to kill our women. This is the message that the Israeli army wants to send, that we are being targeted. That we are targets for killing. It does not recognize civilians, the defenseless, children or elderly people.”
10. Mid of bloodstained cloth on ground
11. Various of mourners seated
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bassam Hazzaa, grandfather of Laila Al-Khatib:
“There were no gunmen and there was no threat to the Israeli forces. They came and opened fire on us without any reason, without any warning, and without any threat against them.”
13. Various of funeral procession, man carrying the body of Al-Khatib
STORYLINE:
Mourners attended the funeral of a two-year-old Palestinian girl on Sunday in the West Bank.
The Palestinian health ministry said Laila Al-Khatib was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the area of Jenin, a city in the northern West Bank where Israeli forces have been operating in recent days.
"Unfortunately, the little girl was hit in the head, a fatal injury, and was martyred, may God have mercy on her. Her mother and aunt were also injured," said her grandfather, Bassam Hazzaa.
This is the message that the Israeli army wants to send, that we are being targeted. That we are targets for killing. It does not recognize civilians, the defenseless, children or elderly people," he added.
Israel’s military said it was reviewing the incident.
It said its forces had fired at militants who had barricaded themselves behind a structure, and it was aware of reports that an uninvolved civilian had been hurt.
The death comes as Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns.
At least 11 Palestinians were killed in Jenin in the latest raid.
Palestinian health officials said another Palestinian man was killed Saturday in Balata, a refugee camp in the central West Bank.
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